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Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Edtech’s Next Big Disruption Is The College Degree - Aaron Skonnard, Tech Crunch

For centuries, the college degree has been the global gold standard for assessing an individual entering the workforce. But after cornering the credentials market for nearly a millennium, the degree’s days alone at the top are most definitely numbered. By 2020, the traditional degree will have made room on its pedestal for a new array of modern credentials that are currently gaining mainstream traction as viable measures of learning, ability and accomplishment. Technology is changing the job market, and it’s only natural that we find new ways of determining who’s the right fit for those jobs.
http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/29/edtechs-next-big-disruption-is-the-college-degree/#.mcirfbh:I4Aj

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